Are parenting questions on-topic for Atheism?

Question

Proposal: Atheism

Examples:

• Raising atheist children: how to deal with participation in holiday-themed school functions?
• Raising atheist children, what are your ways to teach strong morals?

These two questions have been criticized by what I feel could be a recurring theme, that parenting is off-topic on that proposal, and questions should not be about advice on the topic.

So let's settle this early on: Should questions with a parenting component be on-topic?

Answer 1

My two cents: Yes, questions that discuss how to raise children in an atheistic or non-religious manner should be on-topic.

Since religion is a prevalent phenomenon in most societies, raising children without any of it could give raise to interesting issues, which are off-topic on Parenting, as they don't deal with religion (or lack thereof).

That said there is, of course, some overlap with the parenting proposal. But this isn't our first rodeo (if you excuse the Americanism) and most live sites overlap with some others in some way.

Let's take two examples:

1. My kid is friends with another child from an [atheist / religious] family. Should I correct that?
2. My kid asked me where we go when we die, since there is no paradise. What do I tell him?

In my contrived examples, Q1 is obviously right up Parenting's alley while Q2 is absolutely not.

Answer 2

Wow how do i start this...

Philosophy is a brached system to see what i mean go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlJD0i_WwdQ. as you will see there is are the categories metaphysics/epistimology and a category on ethics. this is just basic but if your metaphysical view is atheism and parenting falls into primarily ethics and secondarily politics (again watch video for further definitions). so since your atheism comes first and parenting should follow parenting is a part of atheism. and should be included on this site.